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Brian Peach

Hong Kong
Production Editor, Political Economy    
Brian is a veteran newspaperman with two decades in the industry. Before joining the SCMP as a Beijing-based journalist in 2011, he cut his teeth on hard news and political reporting in the US, with thousands of bylines and a few awards. He is now a Political Economy editor in Hong Kong.

Lying flat, or tang ping in Chinese, means doing the bare minimum to get by, and striving for nothing more than what is absolutely essential for survival, but this ethos poses a threat to President Xi Jinping’s “Chinese dream”.

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China’s appetite for steel has surpassed 1 billion tonnes a year, but it is becoming increasingly expensive and difficult to source the most vital ingredient – iron ore – from abroad.

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China provides an official surveyed unemployment rate but it does not include 149 million self-employed business owners and nearly 300 million migrant workers.

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Improving mental health and preventing suicide are among the main tenets of Movember, particularly as the suicide rate among men is much higher than among women

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A month without shaving your facial hair ... what could be easier? But after illness, heartbreak and sleep deprivation take their toll, can Brian Peach cut it?

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